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Black adults in Pennsylvania were eight times more likely than white adults to be arrested for marijuana possession last year, says an American Civil Liberties Union analysis reported by Philly.com. Compared with 2010, the study showed a substantial increase in marijuana possession arrests even as...

The catchy phrase is as important in academic writing as it is in popular writing. In motivating their constitution-making stage in The Calculus of Consent, James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock assumed “that the individual is uncertain as to what his own precise role will be...

Like the rest of the population, lawyers can find themselves spending considerable amounts of time online and on social media platforms. Additionally, like all of us, they can make serious mistakes on these platforms, including malpractice, ethical breaches subject to discipline, breach of fiduciary duty,...

President Trump says he will declare a national emergency next week to address the opioid epidemic, as he declined to express confidence in Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA), his nominee for drug czar, after revelations that the congressman helped steer legislation making it harder to act...

Yesterday the Supreme Court added four cases to its merits docket for the current term. Amy Howe has this blog’s coverage, which first appeared at Howe on the Court. The most high-profile grant was in United States v. Microsoft Corp., which asks whether the government...

Five days after unexpectedly dangling a legal out for Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) by questioning a theory that is key to the prosecution’s federal bribery case against the Democratic lawmaker and his co-defendant, Judge William Walls withdrew it on Monday, reports Politico. Menendez’s attorneys had...

A federal judge in Maryland is deciding on the legality of President Trump’s third version of his travel ban, Politico reports. Judges blunted the impact of the first two executive orders Trump issued earlier this year, measures that critics said were thinly disguised versions of...

Misunderstandings about Mesothelioma cancer
Misunderstandings about Mesothelioma cancer. Mesothelioma cancer is lung cancer. Among the most typical locations of the body where mesothelioma cancer establishes is the lung, and because of this, numerous misunderstand mesothelioma cancer to be a kind of lung cancer. In reality, mesothelioma...

The timing could not have been more propitious for Liberty Fund’s conference on cryptocurrency this past weekend. Last week Bitcoin hit an all-time high, even as it decreases in volatility. In their book, The Age of Cryptocurrency, Paul Vigna and Michael Casey offer five stages...

The petitions of the day are:
Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Naugle
17-400
Issues: (1) Whether, when there is no way to tell whether a prior jury found particular facts against a party, due process permits those facts to be conclusively presumed against that party in subsequent litigation;...